The third international conference of civil society organizations on the use of chemical weapons in Syria was launched in Damascus on Tuesday.
The Conference, held for the first time in Syria, is sponsored by the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, in participation of civil society organizations, a group of survivors from attacks with chemical weapons, and representatives of other countries.
Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh said at the opening ceremony that through this conference, “we assure that we won’t turn a blind eye on the crimes, we will not allow impunity and will work to ensure that this crime is not repeated in Syria.”
“We won’t allow that the violations file get folded or that chemical attacks” the former regime committed go unaccounted for, he added.
al-Saleh stressed that Syria is working in full coordination with the international Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and concerned countries to remove safely chemical weapons dangers.
Today we want that “no one in the world lives the suffocation moments the Syrians have lived”, he concluded.
